httpd segfaults
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at iesabroad.org
Wed Nov 23 16:15:02 UTC 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Orton [mailto:jorton at redhat.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 10:10 AM
> To: Mike McGrath
> Cc: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: httpd segfaults
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:18:25AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > I should probably take this to the apache lists but I figured I'd
> > start here first.
> >
> > I'm running a reverse proxy server on FC3. It has multiple
> websites,
> > pointing to multiple application servers. Every now and
> then I start
> > getting segfaults:
> >
> > [Tue Nov 22 09:42:15 2005] [notice] child pid 19701 exit signal
> ...
> >
> > I can't quite tell what is causing the segfaults, though I
> believe it
> > is caused after a report or some other page on an
> application server
> > takes too long and times out. After these segfaults start
> happening
> > some but not all of my sites become unavailable. It seems that all
> > sites that require authentication fail, those that do not require
> > authentication work. I'm using mod_auth_ldap to
> authenticate against
> > an AD server. I have been unable to re-create the error myself.
> >
> > I'm running FC3, httpd-2.0.53-3.3
>
> There are a bunch of known crashes in mod_ldap/mod_auth_ldap
> which are fixed in the latest FC4 httpd updates but aren't in
> FC3. I'd need to see a backtrace from a crash to be sure
> that was the cause; add "CoreDumpDirectory /tmp" to
> httpd.conf, restart httpd, and get a backtrace using gdb.
>
> I'd advise updating to FC4 if you can.
>
> joe
>
I've added the CoreDumpDirectory directive to my config file, I'm
planning on upgrading this machine to FC4 sometime before the end of 05.
Thanks for your help.
-Mike
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